Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York made a visit to Tullamore, Offaly, this week after taking part in the conclave to elect Pope Leo XIV last week.
Cardinal Dolan visited his past teacher while in Ireland, Sister Mary Bosco Daly who recently celebrated her 100th birthday.
Sister Mary Bosco Daly is a Kilbeggan native now in retirement at the Convent of St Josephs in Tullamore, who taught Cardinal Dolan at the beginning of her teaching days at Holy Infant Ballwin Missouri.
Cardinal Dolan posted a video of his meeting with Sister Mary Bosco on social media and said that he should be in Rome with Pope Leo XIV.
“Choosing is always important for God. He chooses us, he chose Matthias, we just chose a new Pope. So this choice, this call, this vocation continues in the church.
“I thank God for Sister Bosco’s vocation as a devoted, generous Sister of Mercy who came. I thank God for the call, the choice of Pope Leo,” Cardinal Dolan said.
Cardinal Dolan’s visit coincided with the date of his parent’s wedding anniversary, Robert Dolan and Shirley Radcliffe, in 1949 in Missouri.
In a lighter moment at the end of the video, Cardinal Dolan asked Sister Mary Bosco if she would like to sing, to which she declined, and he responded “thank God”.
Cardinal Dolan was named Archbishop of New York by Pope Benedict XVI in February 2009. He had served as Archbishop of Milwaukee prior to that, appointed there by Pope Saint John Paul II in June 2002.